Responsive Icon Grid

A responsive grid of anchors with icons, text and some example hover transitions.

By Mary Lou in Blueprints on July 1, 2013

A grid of icons and text that adjusts its number of columns depending on the screen size as shown in some media queries. Some example effects are used for animating the elements on hover.

The HTML

<ul class="cbp-ig-grid">
	<li>
		<a href="#">
			<span class="cbp-ig-icon cbp-ig-icon-shoe"></span>
			<h3 class="cbp-ig-title">Squid voluptate</h3>
			<span class="cbp-ig-category">Fashion</span>
		</a>
	</li>
	<li>
		<a href="#">
			<span class="cbp-ig-icon cbp-ig-icon-ribbon"></span>
			<h3 class="cbp-ig-title">Mixtape lo-fi</h3>
			<span class="cbp-ig-category">Design</span>
		</a>
	</li>
	<li>
		<a href="#">
			<span class="cbp-ig-icon cbp-ig-icon-milk"></span>
			<h3 class="cbp-ig-title">Cosby sweater</h3>
			<span class="cbp-ig-category">Lifestyle</span>
		</a>
	</li>
	<li>
		<a href="#">
			<span class="cbp-ig-icon cbp-ig-icon-whippy"></span>
			<h3 class="cbp-ig-title">Commodo</h3>
			<span class="cbp-ig-category">Food</span>
		</a>
	</li>
	<li>
		<a href="#">
			<span class="cbp-ig-icon cbp-ig-icon-spectacles"></span>
			<h3 class="cbp-ig-title">Bitters kitsch</h3>
			<span class="cbp-ig-category">Gadgets</span>
		</a>
	</li>
	<li>
		<a href="#">
			<span class="cbp-ig-icon cbp-ig-icon-doumbek"></span>
			<h3 class="cbp-ig-title">Austin proident</h3>
			<span class="cbp-ig-category">Music</span>
		</a>
	</li>
</ul>

The CSS

@font-face {
	font-family: 'anyoldicon';
	src:url('../fonts/anyoldicon/anyoldicon.eot');
	src:url('../fonts/anyoldicon/anyoldicon.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
		url('../fonts/anyoldicon/anyoldicon.woff') format('woff'),
		url('../fonts/anyoldicon/anyoldicon.ttf') format('truetype'),
		url('../fonts/anyoldicon/anyoldicon.svg#anyoldicon') format('svg');
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
}

/* General grid styles */
.cbp-ig-grid {
	list-style: none;
	padding: 0 0 50px 0;
	margin: 0;
}

/* Clear floats */
.cbp-ig-grid:before, 
.cbp-ig-grid:after { 
	content: " "; 
	display: table; 
}

.cbp-ig-grid:after { 
	clear: both; 
}

/* grid item */
.cbp-ig-grid li {
	width: 33%;
	float: left;
	height: 420px;
	text-align: center;
	border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
}

/* we are using a combination of borders and box shadows to control the grid lines */
.cbp-ig-grid li:nth-child(-n+3){
	border-top: none;
}

.cbp-ig-grid li:nth-child(3n-1),
.cbp-ig-grid li:nth-child(3n-2) {
	box-shadow: 1px 0 0 #ddd;
}

/* anchor style */
.cbp-ig-grid li > a {
	display: block;
	height: 100%;
	color: #47a3da;
	-webkit-transition: background 0.2s;
	-moz-transition: background 0.2s;
	transition: background 0.2s;
}

/* the icon with pseudo class for icon font */
.cbp-ig-icon {
	padding: 30px 0 0 0;
	display: block;
	-webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.2s;
	transition: -moz-transform 0.2s;
	transition: transform 0.2s;
}

.cbp-ig-icon:before {
	font-family: 'anyoldicon';
	font-size: 14em;
	speak: none;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-variant: normal;
	text-transform: none;
	line-height: 1;
	-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

.cbp-ig-icon-shoe:before {
	content: "e000";
}

.cbp-ig-icon-ribbon:before {
	content: "e001";
}

.cbp-ig-icon-milk:before {
	content: "e002";
}

.cbp-ig-icon-whippy:before {
	content: "e003";
}

.cbp-ig-icon-spectacles:before {
	content: "e004";
}

.cbp-ig-icon-doumbek:before {
	content: "e007";
}

/* title element */
.cbp-ig-grid .cbp-ig-title {
	margin: 20px 0 10px 0;
	padding: 20px 0 0 0;
	font-size: 2em;
	position: relative;
	-webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.2s;
	-moz-transition: -moz-transform 0.2s;
	transition: transform 0.2s;
}

.cbp-ig-grid .cbp-ig-title:before {
	content: '';
	position: absolute;
	background: #47a3da;
	width: 160px;
	height: 6px;
	top: 0px;
	left: 50%;
	margin: -10px 0 0 -80px;
	-webkit-transition: margin-top 0.2s; /* top or translate does not seem to work in Firefox */
	-moz-transition: margin-top 0.2s;
	transition: margin-top 0.2s;
}

.cbp-ig-grid .cbp-ig-category {
	text-transform: uppercase;
	display: inline-block;
	font-size: 1em;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
	color: #fff;
	-webkit-transform: translateY(10px);
	-moz-transform: -moz-translateY(10px);
	-ms-transform: -ms-translateY(10px);
	transform: translateY(10px);
	opacity: 0;
	-webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.3s, opacity 0.2s;
	-moz-transition: -moz-transform 0.3s, opacity 0.2s;
	-webkit-transition: transform 0.3s, opacity 0.2s;
}

.cbp-ig-grid li:hover .cbp-ig-category,
.touch .cbp-ig-grid li .cbp-ig-category {
	opacity: 1;
	-webkit-transform: translateY(0px);
	-moz-transform: translateY(0px);
	-ms-transform: translateY(0px);
	transform: translateY(0px);
}

/* Hover styles */

.cbp-ig-grid li > a:hover {
	background: #47a3da;
}

.cbp-ig-grid li > a:hover .cbp-ig-icon {
	-webkit-transform: translateY(10px);
	-moz-transform: translateY(10px);
	-ms-transform: translateY(10px);
	transform: translateY(10px);
}

.cbp-ig-grid li > a:hover .cbp-ig-icon:before,
.cbp-ig-grid li > a:hover .cbp-ig-title {
	color: #fff;
}

.cbp-ig-grid li > a:hover .cbp-ig-title {
	-webkit-transform: translateY(-30px);
	-moz-transform: translateY(-30px);
	-ms-transform: translateY(-30px);
	transform: translateY(-30px);
}

.cbp-ig-grid li > a:hover .cbp-ig-title:before {
	background: #fff;
	margin-top: 80px;
}

@media screen and (max-width: 62.75em) {
	.cbp-ig-grid li {
		width: 50%;
	}

	/* reset the grid lines */
	.cbp-ig-grid li:nth-child(-n+3){
		border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
	}

	.cbp-ig-grid li:nth-child(3n-1),
	.cbp-ig-grid li:nth-child(3n-2) {
		box-shadow: none;
	}

	.cbp-ig-grid li:nth-child(-n+2){
		border-top: none;
	}

	.cbp-ig-grid li:nth-child(2n-1) {
		box-shadow: 1px 0 0 #ddd;
	}
}

@media screen and (max-width: 41.6em) { 
	.cbp-ig-grid li {
		width: 100%;
	}

	.cbp-ig-grid li:nth-child(-n+2){
		border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
	}

	.cbp-ig-grid li:nth-child(2n-1) {
		box-shadow: none
	}

	.cbp-ig-grid li:first-child {
		border-top: none;
	}
}

@media screen and (max-width: 25em) { 
	.cbp-ig-grid {
		font-size: 80%;
	}

	.cbp-ig-grid .cbp-ig-category {
		margin-top: 20px;
	}
}

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Comments are closed.

Don May 2, 2014 at 12:59

So there was a little annoying font smoothing thing happening with safari during the transitions – basically upon hover, the font would change thickness a little then settle back down once the transition had finished.

After a little googling this handy post on stack overflow solved it
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12502234/how-to-prevent-webkit-text-rendering-change-during-css-transition

You I just placed they following in the body css style so it now looks like this

body { /* disables that annoying font transition smoothing with safari!!! */ -webkit-transform: translateZ(0px); font-family: 'Roboto', Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; color: #47a3da; }
Nano May 7, 2014 at 17:59

Excelent Article. The same cuestion, How can I change the icons..? Thanks.
- Sem Voigtländer May 25, 2015 at 20:45
  
  You can use font awesome, just replace the classes.
- HJP September 1, 2015 at 09:10
  
  Could you please explain how to do this using a code sample? The classes that they are using are custom and do not use the format that FontAwesome does.

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